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The Dolichopodan Logor of Hubristic Recidivity Mawphniang Napoleon	Belitteling lucre's lubric cupidity - how...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Father To His Son Carl Sandburg	quest of lucre beyond a few easy needs has twisted good enough men sometimes into dry thwarted...	Rate it (2.00 / 2 votes)
A Black Job. Thomas Hood	More filthy lucre, in a word, more gold - The why, sir, very easily is told, Because Humanity declares we...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
2005 Joe Strickland	aside the commune's creed for lucre's lustful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Midsummer Night's Pipedream John Jessup Kennan	Push unto me lucre," saith...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Satire against the citizens of London Henry Howard	And greedy lucre live in dread To see what hate ill-got goods win; The lechers, ye that lusts do...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Abstract, Or Sound Poem John Joseph Hughes	machine lotta regatta take back your=filthy+lucre+Dell's-Hell'sBells bring bring bring bling bling wee-wee...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Old Song Rudyard Kipling	So long as Lust or Lucre tempt Straight riders from the course, So long as with each drink we pour Black brewage...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aneurin's Harp George Meredith	Sole illumes their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Australia's Pride William Thomas Goodge	On lucre bent he hired a tent And made a rise with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Concerning the Philosophers Stone. ( alchemical verse .) John Gower	The Losse is had the Lucre is lore: To gette a pound thei spendeth five, I not how such a Craft shall thrive: In the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy I. He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country William Shenstone	Still may the mourner, lavish of his tears For lucre's venal need, invite my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XIX. - Written in Spring, 1743 William Shenstone	War, endless war, with lucre and with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XV. In Memory of a Private Family in Worcestershire William Shenstone	From Lucre's vagrant sons had learn'd her fame, But never wish'd to place her banners...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (excerpt) George Gordon Lord Byron	Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame: Still for stern Mammon may they toil in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistle. To Mrs. Hannah More William Hayley	Free from the thirst of lucre and of fame; The wish most valued, when best understood, To make the pen an instrument of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistles To Mr. Pope. Epistle II. From Oxford. Edward Young	Thus ends your courted fame: does lucre then, The sacred thirst of gold, betray your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Gold. Robert Crawford	'tis filthy lucre, honour's shame, For which so many a Judas...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine Hilaire Belloc	Dead Lucre: burnt Ambition: Wine is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jonah Robert Graves	“O town of gold, Of splendour multifold, Lucre and lust, Leviathan’s eye Can surely spy Thy doom of death and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
London, Hast Thou Accursed Me Henry Howard	To heaven his spirit lift may begin; And greedy lucre live in dread To see what hate ill-got goods win; The lechers, ye that lusts do feed,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mary Ambree Andrew Lang	Being falselye betrayed for lucre of hyre, At length she was forced to make a retyre; Then her souldiers into a strong castle...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nostalgia secretina	Everyone I trusted has betrayed me for filthy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Our Sacred Cows Are Showing Wuncie	Lucre, lucre, and lucre again Is our mantra’s tireless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
pirates of purveyance haiku artist	it's the filthy lucre we're after, especially the dirty uncut...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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